shivalinga

Indian superstar Sourav Ganguly, captain of India's national cricket team ( as popular as baseball, basketball and football combined in the U.S. ), gives out his religious views and the history of the Jagannath (juggernaut) chariot festival in Puri.

Ganguly speaks out

premjan

There is said to be documentation in the Puri Jagannath temple of Jesus having visited there. I wonder if there is any publically available copy of that documentation.

hinduwoman

of course there is not!! :banghead:

premjan

of course no public or of course no documentation? how are you sure about that?

shivalinga

There is a bogus "ancient" document called "The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ" about jesus in india and there is also another book from 1907 called the "Unkown life of Jesus" that has him in india, in them Jesus goes to Puri and sees the Jagannath deity and preaches against it.


Of course people in india and also islamic countries as well take advantage of these "jesus christ slept here" myths to get tourists to come and spend money.

here is the story

"For example, the Juggernath temple in eastern India, which appears to have been Jesus' destination after he left the Jains...was built over a thousand years following Jesus' death"

premjan

Of course I have been to Jagannath ... those pandas are all thugs out for a buck.

Plus Jagannath wasn't built until the 12th century. Jesus wasn't called Issa until Islamic times. And all the accounts of his stay in India read more like an inkblot test than a history of anything. Much easier to see the Jesus-in-India story as a systematic bias of several self-interested non-scholars.